by madwife2002 - Do you cut corners in your daily nursing practice? Or do you do everything according to the 'book'.
Do you police yourself in your everyday care of a patient, what do I mean by police yourself? I...

by madwife2002 - In an Interview recently, I was asked a strange question, "If you were an animal what kind of animal would you be?"
Initially I laughed out loud as I thought it was a trick question or a joke but...

by madwife2002 - Moving from one state to another can be as easy as ABC, providing you plan and make it a nice smooth transition.
There are certain variables which you are able to control and there are certain...

by madwife2002 - Has your facility recently started your 5 diamond projects for ESRD NETWORKS?
For those of you who have never heard of it, it is like a 5 star rating for hotels.
You achieve a star for each of...

by madwife2002 - Nursing, a caring profession or is this a lame description?
Caring is such a mild description of what nurses are about. I believe the word care or caring are no longer adequate to describe what we...

by madwife2002 - To be a nurse we have to have a collection of strengths to stay in the profession. We have to be able to communicate effectively to people from all walks of life, to our co-workers and other members...

by madwife2002 - It is time off!
We love our time off! We want our days off to be in a row of at least 2 and we want to have every other weekend off.
We don't want to work every holiday, every weekend and...

by madwife2002 - When I was doing my finals many years ago I was faced with discussing 2 specialties one was Looking after the renal patient the anatomy and physiology, the other the CVA/Stroke patient or as now we...

by madwife2002 - Discrimination, sexism and bullying in the work place appear to be on the increase which concerns me a great deal. It comes under many guises and is not always easy to see. It is like a virus and it...

by madwife2002 - Did you know that the only way to protect yourself in a court of law is to follow your company's policies and procedures, to the letter!
If it is in the Policy and Procedure (P & P) manual, then...

by madwife2002 - Did you know that there is such a thing as email etiquette - for Work?
I don't know about you, but I have tripped into many pitfalls with my emails! Emails can have a tone, attitude, rudeness,...

by madwife2002 - Documentation and the average nurse is a hot topic, so you have to start as you mean to go on!
Documentation in nursing varies a great deal, what you should document, what you do document and what...

by madwife2002 - My greatest fear as a new student nurse was how was I going to cope when I saw my first dead person?
I had never even had a relative who had died nor been to many funerals.
In the UK we don't...

by madwife2002 - When I was a new nurse back in 1993, I worked in a very old hospital in the UK. It was an old TB institute that became a large teaching hospital probably around the 1950's.
It had old long drafty...

by madwife2002 - For years, we (in the nursing profession) have identified an increase in full moon personality changes among our patients and co-workers.
None of them for the better!
Yet research does not...